April 2009
First day of summer in Montreal
WatchI AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak by Stacey Muhammad via this guest-post by Macon D. about “Fail[ing] to understand when non-white people distrust the police”.
See also, this post about using graffiti to draw awareness to the deaths of non-white Montrealers at the hands of police officers, including the recent case of Fredy Villaneuva on August 9th, 2008.
White Trumpet, Spring 09
britticisms:
Basic shapes with complex ornamentation and geometric construction. See the rest here.
The Architecture of Evocation, Or Hipster... →
I actually incorporated façadism into the thesis of a paper I wrote last year for my Canadian Postmodern Architecture class, without knowing it was an established concept in the field.
From Alanah Heffez’s recent article on Spacing Montreal entitled “The Architecture of Evocation (or Hipster Architecture?)”:
The two architects go say that facadism - the preservation of a...
WatchThankfully, Marty livestreams most of my life these days. Here’s a clip from my birthday dinner last night at Le Nil Bleu. Listen for my whiny/wine-y “Thank you guys so much for coming.”
Dinner was amazing and the company was perfect. After stuffing ourselves full of ethiopian food, wine, and spiced tea, we headed up to Casa to meet up with some other friends for drinks. All in...
New Comments!!!
Aah! So Disqus hasn’t been sending me email notifications when people comment lately. All comments must be approved before they show up on my blog so there have been no comments for almost two months. I just assumed no one was commenting anymore, or maybe that it was too confusing to comment since I updated my tumblr layout (side note: the comment link is below the post it corresponds to).
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Country Road - The Ukuleles of Halifax
These are soaps.
98 year-old woman survives 30 hours under... →
Watchprimandproper:
Last weekend *safesolvent” and I shot a spread on Vegan leather shoes for Worn Fashion Journal. Here’s the time-lapse of the shoot!
We livestreamed the shoot using ustream.tv and then sped up the footage to make this time-lapse. I’m in the orange dress.
A review of my band's latest EP. Boss. →
Thanks, Mr. Steve Guimond!
WatchHair Swish via low————————————-poly and dateismo
This is crazy and makes me want to never shop at... →
Couche-Tard has, much to the consternation of Quebec’s Human and Youth Rights Commission, confirmed this week that it will test-run a “Mosquito” at one of its Laval locations. A Mosquito, in case you don’t know, is a device that pumps out high-frequency sound waves that ostensibly make people 25-and-under want to tear out their brains.
[…] Why would a service...
apartments
bebelestrange:
Just out of curiousity, what does a decent two bedroom apartment rent for where you live? And please state approximately where that is.
Around $750 in Montreal. Depending on the neighbourhood, you could find places for as low as $500. Yeah, it’s the best.
